fedora tevent problem

[Andreas Schneider]

On Thursday 11 August 2011 12:18:59 Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On 08/11/2011 12:10 PM, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> > Am 11.08.2011 11:54, schrieb Jelmer Vernooij:
> >> Hi Tridge, Simo,
> >> 
> >> Sorry for not advertising this change more broadly, I didn't realize
> >> you
> >> had packages that included the brokenness.
> >> 
> >> On 08/11/2011 04:51 AM, tridge at samba.org wrote:
> >>> The simplest fix for the tevent symbol version problem on Fedora may
> >>> be to remove the ABI/tevent-0.9.9.sigs file from your Fedora
> >>> build. That will force all the symbols that should be 0.9.9 to be
> >>> 0.9.10, which matches the previous behaviour.
> >>> 
> >>> You'd need to keep this change forever though.
> >> 
> >> s/forever/until we bump the API version (libtevent-1.X)/
> >> 
> >>> Thanks to Amitay for the suggestion!
> >>> 
> >>> Note that we could also just remove that file from the repo, but
> >>> doing
> >>> that would break any binaries that people have built against the
> >>> current releases since Jelmers change in March.
> >> 
> >> Yeah, that would break the Debian packages. The Debian build tools
> >> were
> >> what alerted me to the problem in the first place, as they didn't
> >> allow
> >> me to build with removed symbols.
> > 
> > Can someone explain the problem to me?
> 
> We were generating invalid vscript files, where we implied that tevent
> 0.9.10 was older than 0.9.9 because of the way we did sorting:
> 
> TEVENT_0.9.10 {
>    global:
>     tevent_set_debug;
>     ...
> };
> 
> TEVENT_0.9.9 {
> } TEVENT_0.9.10
> 
> This meant that tevent 0.9.10 broke all existing things compiled against
> 0.9.9.

Hi,

do you know the ABI Complicance Checker?

You can also request to get your library checked by them:

http://linuxtesting.org/upstream-tracker/

or run it on your own:

http://ispras.linux-foundation.org/index.php/ABI_compliance_checker


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